Provinces, SANA – Army continued operations against positions of terrorist organizations in various areas on Saturday, clamping down hard on them and inflicting heavy losses upon them in personnel and equipment.
Army units killed numbers of terrorists and destroyed their equipment after targeting their gatherings in the mountains of Qalamoun in Damascus Countryside.
Numbers of terrorists were killed as units of the armed forces targeted their gatherings in operations that were concentrated in several towns and villages in the countryside of the coastal province of Lattakia.
SANA reporter quoted a military source as saying that an army unit destroyed a den for terrorists in Salma town in the northern countryside, leaving all terrorists inside it dead and wounded.
The source added that other army units destroyed a number of cars equipped with heavy machine guns which terrorists were using in the villages of al-Koum, Dourin, al-Mgheiriyeh and Tertyah.
Other army units inflicted direct hits on several gatherings of terrorists in the areas of Dourin, Kroum al-Safsaf, Rweisat Um Hassan and Jabal Qraqfi, destroying the equipment which terrorists were using.
Meanwhile, army units targeted a number of gatherings of terrorists in Kfarnan, Burj Qaei, Ein Hassan, al-Ghanto and in the surrounding of al-Deghli in Talbiseh in the countryside of the central province of Homs.
A military source confirmed that the operations resulted in the killing of numbers of the terrorists, while others were wounded.
In another context, units of the armed forces foiled an attempt by a group of terrorists to sneak from the direction of Jisr al-Khrab into the farms surrounding al-Waer neighborhood in the city of Homs.
Another group of terrorists also attempted to infiltrate the villages of al-Mekhtariyeh and al-Saan from the direction of Housh Hajar and al-Deghli in the countryside of Homs and were repelled by the army units.
The operations left many of the infiltrating terrorists dead and wounded.
In Aleppo, a military source told SANA that the army units targeted dens of terrorists in Andan, Tal Qrah, al-Mallah land, Bashkwa, cement factory, al-Jbaileh, Tal Jbeen, Hanano, al-Shqaif, Hraitan, al-Meslmiyeh, al-Amriyeh, Mare’, al-Kastillo, Dweir al-Zaitoun and Tal Sozen in Aleppo and its countryside, killing and injuring scores of terrorists.
The source added that other army units destroyed cars for terrorists loaded with weapons and ammunition in al-Mansoura, Kroum Azezeh and Kfar Hamra, killing many terrorists.
An armored car with all terrorists inside it was also destroyed in al-Layramoun.
In the same context, army units killed and injured terrorists and destroyed vehicles fitted with heavy machine guns in several areas and roads in the countryside of the southern province of Daraa.